Submitted via IRC for BoyceMagooglyMonkey
The US Department of Justice said Wednesday that it has filed criminal charges against three men believed to be central to the FIN7 hacking group.
According to indictments unsealed in federal court in Seattle, prosecutors say that Dmytro Federov, 44, Fedir Hladyr, 33, and Andrii Kolpakov, 30, hacked into "thousands of computer systems and stole millions of customer credit and debit card numbers, which the group used or sold for profit."
The suspects are believed to have hit companies across 47 states and the District of Columbia to steal "more than 15 million customer card records."
"The three Ukrainian nationals indicted today allegedly were part of a prolific hacking group that targeted American companies and citizens by stealing valuable consumer data, including personal credit card information, that they then sold on the Darknet," said Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski.
The three men have been charged with 26 felony counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, hacking, and more.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @04:00AM (2 children)
there is no darknet, it's just internet communication not fully under control of three letterss agencies and big corporations
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @04:22AM
Yeah, well, look what these Ukrainian hackers can do! Just think about what the Russian hackers are capable of!
There could be Russian hackers on the darknet now, doing Russian hacker things! They might even sign on to hidden service IRC servers!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @04:31AM
Hmm, let's shorten that. How about "darknet"?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 07 2018, @02:31PM
What a bunch of losers. Fin7 is actually an old woman in Bulgaria. She needs the money for her grand daughter's heart transplant. But, the alphabet soup guys couldn't admit publicly that an old woman whipped their asses, so they're going to frame three men.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @10:07PM
Why should it matter whether they arrested three men, or three women? The proper phrasing is "arrested three people". Get this right editors, otherwise some of the special snowflakes could be triggered.